The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself Maya Angelou
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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. Maya Angelou (via purplebuddhaproject)
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. Maya Angelou (via liquidnight)
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. Maya Angelou (via magicinhermadness)
Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away. Maya Angelou (via purplebuddhaproject)
In interviews, Dr. Angelou used the term “prostitute” to refer to her previous employment without rancor or shame. She spoke candidly to her family about it. She told her mother, brother, and son she would redact the information from the book, but only if they were uncomfortable with it. She had no issue whatsoever with …
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Maya Angelou (via larmoyante)
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. Maya Angelou (via drmayaangelou) Our beautiful Maya Angelou. We, your people worldwide, are heartbroken. Your gone from us now, but you will never be forgotten. RIP Maya (4th Apr 1928 – 28th May 2014). (via carolemelanie)
theparisreview: “When the language lends itself to me, when it comes and submits, when it surrenders and says, I am yours, darling—that’s the best part.” RIP Maya Angelou
gradientlair: Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014). Dancer. Singer. Poet. Author. Speaker. Educator. Creative. Inspirer. Mother. Black woman. Beautiful. She means so much to me. Everything. May she rest in peace. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, …